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Thursday, 3 August 2017Sailing spiders Trapdoor spiders are reluctant travellers, but millions of years ago one species appears to have made an epic journey from Africa across the vast Indian Ocean to call Australia home.Subjects: animals, evolution, invertebrates-insects-and-arachnids, news

Thursday, 8 June 2017Human evolution The discovery of fossil remains of Stone Age humans in Morocco pushes back the date of the origin of Homo sapiens by 100,000 years.Subjects: archaeology, evolution, palaeontology, news

Tuesday, 8 November 2016Ageing eyes We are not the only ones who need glasses as we age - bonobos also become long-sighted as they get older, according to research.Subjects: eyes, animals, evolution, mammals, news

Tuesday, 30 August 2016Cold case One of the world's coldest cases may have finally been cracked - human ancestor 'Lucy' died after falling from a tree, according to detailed scans of her 3.18-million-year-old bones.Subjects: evolution, palaeontology, news

Friday, 26 August 2016Love in a torrent Some frogs have evolved ultrasonic mating calls so they can be heard above the background rumble of the fast-flowing streams they depend on, say researchers.Subjects: animal-behaviour, ecology, evolution, news

Thursday, 9 June 2016Old bones A 700,000-year-old hobbit has been discovered by a team of Australian-led researchers on the Indonesian island of Flores, shedding new light on human evolution.Subjects: science-and-technology, evolution, news

Thursday, 21 April 2016Panama monkey The discovery of seven little fossilised teeth during excavations to expand the Panama Canal provides the first evidence of a monkey on the North American continent.Subjects: evolution, palaeontology, mammals, news

Friday, 8 April 2016Missing Y chromosome The disappearance of the Neanderthal Y chromosome from modern humans may be due to genetic incompatibilities that led to miscarriages, suggests the first-ever analysis of the male Neanderthal sex chromosome.Subjects: evolution, genetics, news

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